Watch: Top Ten Hindi Film Trailers in 2011

Watch: Top Ten Hindi Film Trailers in 2011

It gives you a taste of the film in a way calculated to whet your appetite and have you eager to watch the film, and the 10 trailers here did that, often proving better than the main courses, the films they advertised.

Here is my pick for the best trailers we saw this year:

10. Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster

It looks regal, violent, romantic and... cornball?

The trailer for this cleverly titled film shows off its unique cast very well, playing on Jimmy Shergill's screen presence, Randeep Hooda's edgy cool, and Mahie Gill's atypical sexuality.

9. Shaitan

It starts off upside down and, after a whirl of madcap imagery, there is soon a television set crashing down on someone's head.

The trailer for Bejoy Nambiar's debut film packs a helluva heady punch, the music video styling and the radical visuals doing their job very well indeed. The captions are a pain, but the trailer makes us curious enough to bite.

7. 7 Khoon Maaf

There's intrigue splashed all over this trailer for "the story of Susanna", what with a glimpse of each of her husbands -- an eclectic bunch -- and Priyanka in dramatically different looks, even as the winning Darrling plays in the background.

4. Agneepath

There was many a doubter when Karan Johar announced Hrithik Roshan as his candidate to play Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, one of Amitabh Bachchan's most feted roles, but this trailer makes skepticism appear irrelevant.

This is a big, broad masala movie with outrageous characters and no room for subtlety, at least in the trailer, and it looks impossibly appealing.

3. Don 2

You thought you'd seen the last of me, says an embittered Shah Rukh Khan.

Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. The slickness on display in the trailer for this Farhan Akhtar film is smashing. It looks slick, glossy and better than most Hollywood actioners, at least in these two minutes.

2. No One Killed Jessica

Opening with solid blocks of text from a police interrogation, this trailer introduces us to its characters in no-nonsense fashion, and then lets Amit Trivedi's fantastic Dilli-Dilli track fo the talking. Hard-hitting, and how.